scholarly journals The enhanced effect of a Twitter intervention on Pell grant recipients 6-year STEM graduation rates

Heliyon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. e08679
Author(s):  
Greg Heiberger ◽  
Rey Junco ◽  
Sumadhuri Pamarthi
Keyword(s):  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Pell Grant

scholarly journals Using Data To Enhance Decision Making: Graduation Initiative 2025

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Shari McMahan ◽  
Muriel C. Lopez-Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
California State University ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Pell Grant ◽  
State University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Data Driven Approach

The California State University launched its Graduation Initiative 2025 in January 2015 with a clear goal to increase graduation rates for our 475,000 students across all 23 campuses.  The Graduation Initiative 2025 will add 100,000 more baccalaureate degree-educated citizens to California over the next ten years and begin to meet workforce demands. Increasing graduation rates, particularly for first-generation students, requires a strategic, data-driven approach. California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) faces particular challenges as 81% of our undergraduate population are first-generation college students, 63% receive Pell Grant, and 56% of incoming first-year students require some form of developmental coursework in English, math, or both.  Data-driven decision-making must be used to focus graduation efforts.  CSUSB organizes data regarding college readiness, and enrollment characteristics as preparedness have a direct influence on time to degree.  Data on persistence and progress towards the degree are also important to track when examining graduation rates as it helps identify areas to improve.  Finally, data on completion and post-graduation are indicators to track the progress of the initiative and meeting workforce demands. 

The Importance of Tough-Love Mentoring to Doctoral Student Success: Instruments to Measure the Doctoral Student/Proteges’ Perspective

10.28945/4630 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 485-516
Author(s):  
Laura Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
High Standards

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine tough-love mentoring theory (TLM) as a potential way to address the problem of low graduation rates among doctoral students. Background: In order to address this purpose, the researcher presents the following: a) a validation study for assessment tools pertaining to TLM and b) a validation study of TLM theory and its two sub-theories: mentor integrity and trustworthiness sub-theory (MIT) and the mentor high standards sub-theory (MHS). Methodology: The researcher tested the validity of the mentor integrity and trustworthiness scale from the protégés’ perspective (MIT-P), the mentor high standards scale from the protégés’ perspective (MHS-P) and the protégés’ perceptions of their own independence (PPI) scale. The sample consisted of 31 doctoral protégés recruited with multi-phase sampling at four education-related doctoral programs in the eastern part of the United States. Contribution: The study provides evidence to support TLM as a strategy to address the problem of low graduation rates among doctoral students. In addition, the study contributes validation of assessment tools that can be used to measure doctoral protégés’ perceptions of their mentors. Findings: For each scale, the data show acceptable levels of internal consistency and evidence of content validity. The data are consistent with the TLM theory and its two sub-theories. The unique contribution of the current study is that it draws from the protégés’ perspective. Recommendations for Practitioners: The researcher presents a) strategies protégés can use to find trustworthy mentors with high standards and b) strategies program administrators can use for professional development of doctoral mentors. The researcher also provides the Right Angle Research Alignment (RARA) table to help protégés organize and manage the research methods section of their dissertation. Recommendation for Researchers: It is recommended that researchers use experimental methods to test TLM theory and the sub-theories, MIT and MHS. Impact on Society: This theory may be useful in business and in the arts and in other teaching relationships such as coaching and tutoring. The researcher encourages scholars to test TLM theory in these other contexts. Future Research: Further research questions that arise from this study are as follows: How can protégés find mentors who have high standards and who are trustworthy? What can doctoral program administrators do to help mentors develop high standards and trustworthiness?

Medical Rehabilitation Program: 2. Effects on Basic Training Graduation Rates

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda K. Hervig ◽  
Ross R. Vickers ◽  
Bischoff Jr. ◽  
Craig
Keyword(s):  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Basic Training

Framing Effects and Group Differences in Public Opinion about Prison Pell Grants

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Travis M. Johnston ◽  
Kevin H. Wozniak
Keyword(s):  
College Education ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Pell Grant ◽  
Pell Grants ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Racial Resentment ◽  
College Classes ◽  
American Society ◽  
Analyze Data

ABSTRACT After years of gridlock on the issue, a bipartisan group of members of Congress struck a deal in 2020 to restore eligibility for inmates to access Pell Grants. Evidence indicates that college education programs in prison reduce recidivism and, consequently, state corrections expenditures, but legislators in prior decades feared that voters would resent government subsidy of college classes for criminals. To assess the contemporary politics of the issue, we analyze data from a framing experiment embedded in the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. We find that Americans, on average, neither support nor oppose the proposal to restore inmates’ Pell Grant eligibility; however, exposure to arguments about the proposal’s benefits to inmates in particular and American society more broadly both increased subjects’ support. We further explore how this framing effect varies across political partisanship and racial resentment. We find that both frames elicited a positive response from subjects, especially among Democrats and subjects with low or moderate racial resentment.

Improving High School Graduation Through School Climate

2021 ◽  
pp. 019263652199321
Author(s):  
David G. Buckman ◽  
Nathan W. J. Hand ◽  
Arvin Johnson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
High School Graduation Rates ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
School Graduation

The purpose of this study was to contribute to the body of literature regarding decisions school leaders make when developing strategic plans to improve student outcomes. This study investigated whether there is a significant relationship between school climate and graduation rates for public high schools in the state of Georgia when controlling for potential covariates. Using an ordinary least squares multiple regression procedure, this study found a positive school climate increased high school graduation rates ( b = .164, p ≤ .01).

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